The Opelousas courier., 1887-11-26
ODDS AND ENDS.

Taly-ho coaches are to run from Washing
ton, d. O., to Mount Vernon.
Providence, r. l., has just turned out o
solid So, oO0-pound casting.
John G. Whittier will celebrate his eight
ieth birthday on the 18th Of next month.
1t is hoped to dedicate the Gambetta mon
ument in Paris on Jan. l next, the fifth an
| niversary of that statesnlan's death.
millionaire Corcoran, of Washington, who
Will be eighty-nInegears of age in December,
Ears that he expects to entertain more than
usual during the coming season.
Prof. John Tyndall, who reeg9tly spent
some time on the top of the Alpg, at Brieg,
| Switzerland, wrote. while there an essay on
''The Sky, 1t will be published in an early
number Of the Forum.
Prince Alexander of Battenberg, it is ru-
mored, is to marry the Princess Louise Of
Wales. Queen Victoria, in order to obtain
the consent Of her father, had TO promise to
/ endow the bride with$1 600, 600.
A little three-year-old girl was given a
peach. She disposed of everything but the
| stone, aud then made known her ,predlcs-
ment thus: Mamma, Eve eaten the, cloth
and I've eaten the meat, but what snail i 90
with the bop9?"
A postoffice employe says that the gummed
surface of q postage stamp should never be
placed on the tongue. Molsten the other side
of the stamp and the CORNER Of the envelope,
or the latter only, and the stamp Will stick
| for all it Is worth.
It is reported in Buffalo that Mr.. William
D. Howells viii spend the winter in that city,
People there are hoping he will in his next
novel be able to portray a more creditable
specimen of Buffalo girlhood than the one he
put IN his ''Indian Summer"
Sir Richald Burton, of England, the yell
sn9WP =5raye. ! At osah4 ne wt age Of 9ix sydnes
that he has made SO good a tight against old
age.eoHe has been q tremendous worker and
an u~ntiring student ais his life: His learn
trasnslation Of 1.-THE Arabian Nights has
paid him about $40, 600.
NJ. Meissonier, the great French painter,
who is afflicted, with incipient paralysis, was
told the other day that a friend had sprained
his ankle. Lucky man =, he exclaimed, IF
l could have only broken both legs, ans had
my thumb free, hBw happy l should be. l
e s1 dd make k g ba s6 atte n ns to PANT 81 I'll u ny ya bsai
world for The aaeg use COT Of lily right tRnmbl" 'A''
SIT is very wrong, !" said an oeulist, tfS-
people to buy glasses Laser without h gsii gera 5ne
medicines to be put up without a PhSdclan's
prescription. The eye, is . very delttabe or
gan, and improper glasses nos ods cause
manent Injury to the sight. Glasses should
h~e-regularls prescribed, and then fitted by
some one who understands, the business
thoroughly. THIS is particularly necessary
when spectacles are worm"
ut is nonsense, u said a chemist, Ito say
that coffee is injurious on account OF the
Il caffeine i'll it. Caffeine is an atkaloid, which,
taken in large doses, would produce nervous
troubles and other serious consequences but
it is present in coffee in such infinitesimai
quantities that it is perfectly harmless; on the
contrary, it is to eaIeine that coffee owes lts
tonic properties. II coffee is injurioes 10
works very slowly, for thousands of. people
who use it TO excess live to q good OLD, age.
They saDVoltaire drank forty-eight glasses
!. of it q day."
On someparts of the coast of Sumatra and
the n~eighboring islands the fishermen test
the depth OF the sea and also the nature OF
D the bottom by the noises they hear ON apply
ing the ear to one end OF an oar OF which the
! other end is plunged in, the water. At a
: depth of twenty feet and less the sound is 8
crepitation, similar to that Produced when
salt is thrown on burning charcoal; at ntttty
tictac being more or less rapid, according to
whether the bottom is entirely OF coral or
alternately of coral and mud, or OF sand.
If the bottom is entirely Of sald the sound II.
: clear; if of mud it resembles the hunlmlng OF
7 a swarm of bees. On dark nights the nsh-
! ermen select their fishery grounds according
! to these indications.
= The San Francisco Wasp says: "A woman
: Jumps on a chair. holds her pettlcoats round
: her legs and yelIs like a small cyclone at the
r sight OF a mouse. But she rms. up thres
I flights Of stairs in q burning p4lialng 20 5ssc
= a book agent in broad daylight, yet pistol in
hand follows UP p burglar at midnight, Sne
I covers when the furniture ereaks, al1d is q
n 4 AO1G5S IL II III ulhEh MAJ EP AN v
9 door. She tells tales out of school, yet is the
7 first to do g kindness to the woman she's
talked about. She steals a car ride with q
/ crystal conscience. if the conductor forgets
I her fare, and then opens her purse to ltf
= widest to help q man out of o tight corner.
She haggles at the remnant counter for her,
q self, and then triples the none on ianneli
!. for her washerwoman's sick boy"
e Says the st. Louis druggist who sold ths
j chioroform TO Maxwell: If | should live K
d be one hundred years old, have no doubt
that some day q man would come in here
and after buying a toothbrush, or q cake o.
soap, that he didn't want, lolter. around Toi
= a few and then say: This is the place
II where Maxwell got his chlorofornn, isn't 1T
n and then expect me TO tell the whole story o
n the preIler murder. / have got it down q
10 line now as a guide in the n1useum III the ok
!. country has his little, historical speech.
le cant Complain, though, for the episode viii
0. Maxwell has brought many a dollar to m,
purse. It would not he exaggerating to So.
e that ut least 266G people, mostly strangers II
the city, have dropped into my store ant
I'd paved their way to their inquiries by making
or a purchase, by way of peace offering, sine
y the day that preller's body was found in Tn
ar trunk at the Southern HOTEL